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October 14, 2003
Samsung SGH-i505 Looks Compelling
PalmInfocenter has a story about a new phone that Samsung is working on, the SGH-i505 (pictured). The SGH-i505 is a GSM clamshell phone based on Palm OS 5.2.1.
The nifty bits of the SGH-i505 are the high-res screen (320x320), the integrated VGA camera, and the fact that you can swivel the screen 180 degrees to lay it back down over the keypad (the first that we know of that lets you do that).
The story was broken first by msmobiles.com, which seems a bit odd, and is the source of the photo shown. Given that Samsung has recently delayed the SGH-i500, its previously announced GSM Palm OS 5 phone, perhaps the SGH-i505 is already set to replace it even before the SGH-i500 is ever released. Stranger things have happened, for sure.
Posted by Craig in Mobile & PDAs
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Comments
when is the unit available? whats the estimated market price?
Posted by: ernest at December 8, 2003 12:05 AM
You got me -- I've not heard anything further on this from Samsung, who's probably up to their ass in alligators just taking care the dozens of current phones they make.
Posted by: Craig at December 8, 2003 12:57 AM
Deplorable, that is how describe the attitude if Samsung in this and related matters. Trying to get a "marketing" advantage over competitors by announcing a product (the announcement of the sgh-i500 dates back to March LAST year)while keeping it postponed, is not ammusing consumers worldwide...
Posted by: marc jacobs at January 15, 2004 1:17 AM
Deplorable, that is how describe the attitude if Samsung in this and related matters. Trying to get a "marketing" advantage over competitors by announcing a product (the announcement of the sgh-i500 dates back to March LAST year)while keeping it postponed, is not amusing consumers worldwide...
Posted by: marc jacobs at January 15, 2004 1:18 AM
My hunch is that the product was very far along, perhaps even with working dev mules, but got canned or shelved for some reason. I don't think Samsung was deliberately misleading the market...just things changed somehow.
Posted by: Craig at January 15, 2004 1:25 AM
Ladies & Gentlemen, take note. We are now early May and still this device truly shines in only one field: its unavailability. While Samsung "leaks" specs of a so called sgh-i530 ! Certainly, Samsung is breaking a record of some sorts here !
Posted by: marc jacobs at May 3, 2004 5:27 AM